Combination shirt and suspenders.



G. J. BIRNEY.

COMBINATION SHIRT AND SUSPENDERS APPLICATION FILED FEB-19,19".

Patented Feb. 26,1918.

F 4 Inventor.

of the suspenders for laun GEORGE J. IBIBNEY, OI TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

COMBINATION snrn'r um snsrmnns.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application and February 19, 1917. Serial No. 140,428.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J 01m Bnmnr a subject of the King of Great Britain, an resident of the cit of Toronto, county of York, Province of $ntario, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Shirt and Suspenders, described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, that form part of the same.

' The principal objects of the invention are to provide an invisible suspender in which the fasteners for securing same to the trousers will always be accessible from the outside of the shirt and which shirt securely in position without tearing or damaging same. V

A further object is to provide a simple form of combination suspender and shirt m which the suspender ma be removed with i the shirt and will be retained temporarily. in

ositive relation therewith ready for wear and further, to allow for the ready removal The principal feature 0 the invention consists in arranging suspender members upon the inner side of a shirt, the tab ends thereof extending through OPGIHL s in the shirt and being ositively held b asten ng members secured to the suspen er and extending through a secondary openlng and forming holding loops.

In the drawings, Figure 1 1s a perspect ve view showing my improved device, the shut being broken away to show the anner of application and the suspenders being shown partly in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view showing the suspender in position embracing an holding the shirt.

Fig. 3 is a plan view ofthe suspender stra Fig. 4 is a detail plan view showing the tab end of the suspen er holding the shirt.

Invisible suspenders of various kinds have been placed upon the market but those forms of suspenders which have been extensively marketed and which gri the body of the shirt with the buttons of the trousers have the objectionable features of being very difficult to fasten. and are never secure and they 'are very hard on the garment, particularly as the point ofcoimection is often too short and when the wearer bends an undue strain will hold the preferably is placed upon the shirt which results in its bemg torn.

Various forms of suspenders have been devlsed m which the suspender straps are arranged beneath the arment and extend through slots in the shirt but the means for holding the shirt in position have not been at all serviceable.

The present invention has been devised with the object in view of providing a suspender which will effectively support the trousers and will be readily accessible for ad us tment or attachment and which will posit vely engage'and hold the shirt in a efinite osition. To accomplish this result I rovi e the shoulder straps 1 having suitab e ad'usting buckles 2 and the fastening tab on s 3 ada ted to be secured to the trousers. The s oulder straps 1 are worn beneath the shirt and the shoulder portions preferably slide through straps 4 arranged in the yoke of the shirt.

The body of the shirt is formed with pairs of transverse slits 5 and 6.

The tab ends 3 are adapted to be passed Patented Feb. 26, 1918.

through the slits 5 to the outer side of the shirt and are secured to the trousers.

7 are short'tabs or straps secured upon the outer sides of the tab ends 3 above the button hole ends and are adapted to bepassed through the upper slits 6, the lower ends thereof ex tending be 0nd the cross piece 8 of the shirt between t e slits and to be fastened by means of a suitable fastener 9.

.When'the tab members '7 are thus arranged and secured the body of the shirt will be held positively in a definite position and the upper portion above the trousers is loused as shown so as to present a neat and dressy appearance. The suspender members 1 may be readily attached to the trousers from the exterior and they may be. left temporarily attached to the shirt that is,'they may remainattached to the irt whenit is taken off and intended to be worn again and when again put on the fastening ends are in place for immediate connection to the trousers. The suspender members may be readily detached from the 'shirt to allow for the laundrying of same.

oompris' a shirt having transverseslite ,jthrough e body portion su nder members having faetemng en a apted to ex tend through certain of said slits and to be '5 secured to the trousers, and fastening members each havin one end fixed to the fastening end and a apted to have its other end tem orarily secured to said fastemng end sai fastening members forming loops and '13) extending through slits other than those through which the fastening ends of the susders extend and positively securing the shirt to the suspender end. a

2. A combination shirt and wider;

- havm comprising a shirt having transverse slits arran .in airs one slit being above the other ,m t e be y ortion, su ender members ar- GEORGE J. BIRNEY.

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